What's Available?

The help links in the navigation
bar to the left lead to the complete online documentation for yorick,
including
a manual,
a function index,
a keyword list,
a language Quick Reference,
plus some examples and a cookbook.

The Download links lead to the
yorick Sourceforge project page, where you will find the complete
source and binary distributions for yorick on UNIX, MS Windows, and
MacIntosh computers. The complete online documentation tree can also
be downloaded for local reference. The project page also offers downloads
of yorick plugins and external packages,contributed by yorick users,
but not yet integrated into the yorick distribution.

Development Environment: This page leads
to a description of the yorick development environment, which is David
Munro's suggestion for how to prepare and execute yorick source code.
Alternatively, you can download and use
rlterm or, even better, rlwrap,
which are utilities to run yorick with file name completion,
command line recall, etc (both need the readline library).

Yorick Help

There are a number of resources you can browse on this site for yorick help:

Examples shows a couple of example, with results and code. This does not really belong to the help per say, but it can be a good start if you don't know yorick.

Cookbook includes step by step
instructions on how to make yorick do things in the real world.

The Index contains a list of all the yorick routines in the standard distribution.

Keywords shows a list of (rather arbitrary) keywords and links to functions relative to these keywords.

The QuickRef is a html version of refs.pdf. A brief (6 pages) reminder sheet on the main yorick functions. It's a life saver for yorick newbies.

Finally, the advanced FAQ will give you more insight on yorick internal. Read that only if you have already a good knowledge of this language. It is not a beginner how-to.

Getting Started

If you aren't sure whether you can use yorick at all, read about
the flow past an airfoil or the motion of a drumhead examples. These are
standalone yorick programs; yorick is also very useful as a
postprocessor for much larger simulation codes. Finally, yorick can
be used in combination with presentation or desktop publishing
software to produce the figures accompanying a scientific talk or
paper. If you know what to do with a PostScript graphic, you can
begin using yorick immediately.

The first thing to read is the first chapter of the user manual.
If you are still interested in yorick, download it so you can reread
the manual while typing in the examples to see how yorick works first
hand. You will want to read about the yorick
development environment as well. To follow along online, you
should probably download all this documentation as well, which you can
do from the downloads page.

To complete your introduction to yorick, run and study the demo
programs: